Date: Dec 9, 2012 4:11 AM
Author: Halitsky
Subject: Thanks so much for the sample picture you sent off-line
Thanks for sending the picture... a thousand words? nay, a thousandtimes a thousand words, to wax Bard-ian about it.

I think that anyone who's made any kind of concerted legitimatestatistical effort, even a simple one such as the one you're guidingme through, has got to conclude that Stephen Wolfram is wrong: theworld is not made in the image of a cellular automaton or groupthereof, but rather in the image of a statistical automaton, or groupthereof.

That is, statistics are the "Ding an sich", to use the Kantian term,not a mere description of the "Ding an Sich".

I wish that my Chomskyan traing as an undergrad taking grad courseshad not predisposed me against the behaviorism rampant in the pyschdepartments during the late 60's. Perhaps I would have appreciatedstatistics sooner rather than later.